Covering Chicago's Emerging Businesses
Founded in April 2012, MarkITx is building the world’s largest online B2B exchange for the trading of used IT equipment including switches, routers, servers,…
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Despite recent medical advancements, the methods for treating brain injuries have relatively been unchanged, according to the Quantum Institute, a startup that focuses on concussion…
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Can creativity be engineered? Or do engaging pictures and words simply appear from a mysterious well of swirling fog that can be accessed only…
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Start-up companies often own only intellectual property such as ideas, business plans, patents, and trade secrets. Some are further along with prototypes or beta…
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Years before Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, created a business from his dorm room at Harvard, Sam Yagan, serial entrepreneur and current CEO of online…
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Like any effective manager heading up a group of smart, ambitious entrepreneurs, Jenna Rose is always on the lookout for ways to improve her network.
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If you’ve never met Howard Tullman, you should. People want to hear what Tullman has to say — not only because he is a…
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Pilot Rod Rakic aims to claim a piece of the sky in the $1.2B domestic private airplane rental market.
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One month after graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Neil Gupta found himself speaking at a press conference with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Andrew Mason, former CEO and founder of Groupon ― Chicago’s fastest-growing tech company ― has written an album of songs titled, “Hardly Workin”. Mason,…
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